After their wedding ceremony was rained out, a family invited total strangers to get married at their home

Scenes from the impromptu wedding of Dulce Gonzalez and her fiance Ariel. https://www.facebook.com/cynthia.baberstrunk

Dulce Gonzalez and her fiance planned a June 30 wedding ceremony on the beach in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

Bad weather wrecked their plans.

Cynthia Strunk (who lives across the street from the beach and didn't know the bride or groom) saw what was happening.

Strunk approached Gonzalez and invited her to have the wedding inside her house.

According to a common superstition, rain on your wedding day is supposed to be good luck. But for Dulce Gonzalez, an unexpected downpour nearly prevented her wedding ceremony from even happening.

Gonzalez and her fiance, Ariel, planned a June 30 wedding. The ceremony was set to take place on the beach in Pascagoula, Mississippi, with a restaurant reception to follow. The bride-to-be told Yahoo Lifestyle that — despite only a 15 percent chance of bad weather that day — rain and lightning abruptly started just before the ceremony was about to begin, sending the bride, groom, and all their guests back to their cars.

As Gonzalez panicked and wondered what to would do, Cynthia Strunk approached her car. Strunk, a stranger, had watched the wedding set-up from her house across the street. When she saw the ceremony get rained out, she came up with a plan to help out the distraught bride.

"She comes out and the lightning strikes, so she put her umbrella down," Gonzalez told Yahoo Lifestyle. "She came up to the window and said, 'Y'all are more than welcome to come to our house. I'll have everything ready in 10 minutes.'"

Gonzalez gratefully took Strunk up on her offer. Strunk's husband, Shannon, and their neighbor helped escort the wedding party into the house using umbrellas. Once inside, the Strunks cleared out their large, open living room to be used for the ceremony, even setting up folding chairs for the nearly 50 guests to sit.

"It honestly looked like we had planned it there," Gonzalez said. She recalled thinking to herself, "God definitely wanted us to get married. Thank you for sending us these two little angels to save our big day and make it even more special."

This story of incredible generosity went viral after Strunk shared photos of the impromptu wedding she hosted on Facebook.

"It was a wonderful experience. The wedding party was so gracious and appreciative, and we were thankful that we could offer our home," she wrote in her caption for the photos. "I can say that it was the fastest wedding we have ever set up (ten minutes). It was the cheapest. And it was the quickest to clean up. We highly recommend impromptu weddings."

Gonzalez was particularly moved the Strunk family's unexpected kindness, given the behavior she's typically experienced from other strangers in Mississippi.

"Usually here in Mississippi, I'm not going to say everybody, but there is a lot of racism — white people racist against the Hispanics or black people," she said. "Not all of them. I have come across a lot of them who are nice and open-minded, but there are many who aren't. So I didn't expect it at all, at all, at all."

The reception following the ceremony took place, as planned, at a nearby restaurant called Woody's. On July 2, the newlyweds returned to the Strunks' home and gave them flowers and cake to thank them. The two couples exchanged phone numbers as well, promising to keep in touch.

"We didn't think we were doing anything grand," Strunk told local news station WLOX. "We were just helping some people out on the beach that needed help."

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